Cherie Phillips v. Sanderson Beck

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Cherie Phillips v. Sanderson Beck, 410 F. App'x 52 (9th Cir. 2011)

Cherie Phillips v. Sanderson Beck

Opinion

MEMORANDUM **

Cherie Phillips appeals pro se from the district court’s summary judgment in her action claiming that Sanderson Beck infringed on her intellectual property rights in her texts including Wisdom Bible of God, Stoic Encheiridion, and Stoic Doctrine. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo. Filipino Yellow Pages, Inc. v. Asian Journal Publ’ns, Inc., 198 F.3d 1143, 1146 n. 2 (9th Cir. 1999). We affirm.

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Phillips’s copyright claims because she did not raise a triable issue as to whether Beck had access to the expanded edition of her Wisdom Bible of God, or as to whether there was a substantial similarity between the Phillips’s and Beck’s other texts. See Three Boys Music Corp. v. Bolton, 212 F.3d 477, 481 (9th Cir. 2000) (“Absent direct evidence of copying, proof of infringement involves fact-based showings that the defendant had access to the plaintiffs work and that the two works are substantially similar.”) (internal quotations and citations omitted).

The district court properly granted summary judgment on Phillips’s trademark claim because she did not establish a triable issue as to whether her title, Wisdom Bible of God, had secondary meaning. See Filipino Yellow Pages, 198 F.3d at 1147, 1151.

We decline to consider Phillips’s contentions regarding claims that were not raised below. See Dodd v. Hood River Cnty., 59 F.3d 852, 863 (9th Cir. 1995).

We are not persuaded by Phillips’s remaining contentions, including those of judicial bias.

AFFIRMED.

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This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9 th Cir. R. 36-3.

Reference

Full Case Name
Cherie PHILLIPS and Stoic Church of Philosophy, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Sanderson BECK, Et Al., Defendants-Appellees
Cited By
1 case
Status
Unpublished